Cloud could deliver a silver lining for OracleOracle may well be about to prove itself a winner in offering a range of public and private cloud solutions to companies searching…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Steve Jobs is dead a year but Apple has gained in strengthFOR MANY of the hundreds of journalists attending Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week, sitting in the working press room…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Oracle makes new move into cloudOracle moved firmly into the cloud computing arena yesterday, announcing new products and services that chief executive Larry…Mon Oct 01 2012 - 01:00
Ireland's part in ensuring tougher standards on data privacyNET RESULTS: THANKS TO an Irish report issued last week, Europe gave its clearest indication yet that companies whose business…Thu Sept 27 2012 - 01:00
Smartening up searchingGOING TO a search engine like Google and typing in a query may seem reasonably straightforward to the person doing the search…Thu Sept 27 2012 - 01:00
Ireland urged to strengthen data protection regulationsTHE STATE was urged to advance regulations on the protection of electronic data during its EU presidency by the European Commission…Tue Sept 25 2012 - 01:00
Politicians in anti-Google street protest should get on their bikesTHE PERNICIOUS influence of Nimbyism – the “not in my backyard” brigade – isn’t limited to upmarket residential neighbourhoods…Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
Technology makes sign language's beauty more apparentNET RESULTS: OVER THE summer my cousin married someone who communicates in a different language and comes from a different culture…Thu Sept 13 2012 - 01:00
Publishers can't afford to lose the e-book plotE-BOOKS MAY BE one of the fastest growing areas of publishing, with online bookseller Amazon reporting it now sells more digital…Thu Sept 13 2012 - 01:00
Phone directories now almost as svelte as our mobilesSoon only businesses and public services will have fixed linesThu Sept 06 2012 - 01:00
The banks were right not to lend to tech firms in the boomTHE CENTRAL Bank’s highly critical report on the Irish banking system was a shocking portrait of just how much money banks were…Thu Aug 30 2012 - 01:00
On course for the cloudA postgraduate course at the National College of Ireland’s new Cloud Competency Centre is one of the few worldwide that focus…Thu Aug 30 2012 - 01:00
Reversal of fortunes at Apple and MicrosoftONE OF the most curious – and telling – juxtapositions in Silicon Valley occurs, rather unexpectedly, in Palo Alto’s upscale …Thu Aug 23 2012 - 01:00
US venture capital spend prompts hope and pessimismNET RESULTS: WHEN IT comes to venture capital investment in the US, it’s one of those glass-half-full versus glass-half-empty…Thu Aug 16 2012 - 01:00
Bidding in web domain auctions is not for the faint of heartNET RESULTS: IT BEGAN with an e-mail from a scam artistThu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
A parental code that gets adults talking the languageLIKE A lot of adults who have heard about CoderDojo ( CoderdojoThu Aug 02 2012 - 01:00
At home with the idea of fibre-optic cable to every housePresident Obama’s first internet czar, Susan Crawford, wants to ensure that the internet makes it possible to start businesses…Thu Aug 02 2012 - 01:00
Ahead of his time, Turing's pardon is now long overdueTHE GREAT British mathematician, second World War codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing has become one of the heroes…Thu Jul 19 2012 - 01:00
Festival of Science in the City has the formula for fun for allThe film taken by an eavesdropping, camera-mounted drone is mesmerising as well as eerieThu Jul 12 2012 - 01:00
Promoting equality in the workplace pays offNET RESULTS: JUST OVER a decade ago, Richard Florida, then an economic development professor at Carnegie Mellon University in…Thu Jul 05 2012 - 01:00
The $33 billion philanthropistFRIDAY INTERVIEW: As chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes runs a complex, highly visible and…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Irish OSCE internet event a model for future conferencesKUDOS TO the Department of Foreign Affairs for taking a risk with its two- day meeting at Dublin Castle last week of the Organisation…Thu Jun 28 2012 - 01:00
A spicy, serious and deeply relevant debateANALYSIS : Focusing on the theme of internet freedom proved to be a wise and inspiring choiceTue Jun 19 2012 - 01:00
Technology nurtured my special bond with my fatherMY FATHER and I were always close. We loved many of the same things. Music, books, old movies. And, eventually, technology.Thu Jun 14 2012 - 01:00
Oracle lose Google battle but patent wars will run and runNET RESULTS: DEVELOPERS around the world – though maybe not European government development authorities – will breathe a sigh…Thu Jun 07 2012 - 01:00
Facebook has not imploded world of IPOsFACEBOOK’S IPO flop had an immediate chilling impact on the initial public offering market in the USThu May 31 2012 - 01:00
Campaign in US highlights need to get social media strategy rightNET RESULTS: PERHAPS NOTHING demonstrates how immature our general understanding is of social media than a US presidential campaign…Thu May 24 2012 - 01:00
Amid the legal maze, Oracle looks to extend copyrightIf the US court decides APIs can be copyrighted, a bizarre two-tier global software development environment would be createdThu May 17 2012 - 01:00
Paper books still well-read but ebooks set to be bestsellersNET RESULTS: READ AN ebook lately? Chances are, you didn’t – at least, if Irish reader preferences are in line with those of…Thu May 10 2012 - 01:00
Online 'curating' is just anxiety wrapped in pomposityNET RESULTS: IS IT JUST me, or does anyone else shudder every time they come across the verb “curate” used in the context of…Thu Apr 26 2012 - 01:00
Steering young drivers in the right directionLAST SUMMER, software design student James McNamara stood on a stage in New York’s Lincoln Centre amid shouts, cheers and booming…Thu Apr 19 2012 - 01:00
Ellison out to steer Oracle yacht in the right directionNET RESULTS: LOTS OF technology companies like to show how they “eat their own dog food” – use their own products and services…Thu Apr 19 2012 - 01:00
Act against counterfeits might just go the way of SopaA FEW months ago, despite widespread, growing protests, it looked likely that the Anti Counterfeit Trading Act (Acta) – a kind…Thu Apr 12 2012 - 01:00
Social media could play decisive role in US electionNET RESULTS: OVER THE weekend, I received a personal email from Rufus Gifford, the national financial director of president …Thu Apr 05 2012 - 01:00
Expert claims web changes could mean curtains for WindowsNET RESULTS: IF YOU like a contrarian take on technology, then you’ll probably find venture capitalist Roger McNamee’s 10 Hypotheses…Thu Mar 29 2012 - 01:00
Silicon Valley state of mindVENTURE CAPITALISTS said they remain positive about investment opportunities worldwide in the technology sector even if they …Thu Mar 22 2012 - 00:00
Many hands rub together at prospect of Facebook offeringNET RESULTS: FACEBOOK’S INFLUENCE reaches some unexpected places.Thu Mar 22 2012 - 00:00
Snapshots capture heart of the ValleyNET RESULTS : IT WAS 1977 and Silicon Valley was only just beginning to be known by that term in the wider public mindThu Mar 15 2012 - 00:00
Irish companies lead the way to the cloud - though security remains the missing pieceIRISH COMPANIES are ahead of their international counterparts in using, or considering, cloud computing, but often fail to come…Thu Mar 15 2012 - 00:00
Five Irish firms win awards for cutting-edge technologyFIVE IRISH companies received awards recognising them as the best in their field from the Silicon Valley-based Irish Technology…Wed Mar 14 2012 - 00:00
Distant piers unlikely to make 'bro' wavesWORRIED ABOUT the sometimes-nerdy image of being a computer programmer? Guys, relaxThu Mar 08 2012 - 00:00
Prying into your right to data privacyNET RESULTS: ALMOST EXACTLY a year ago, the Obama administration signalled it intended to produce a consumer data privacy “Bill…Thu Mar 01 2012 - 00:00
Move on copyright not needed - and unwiseNET RESULTS: Do we really need the Government’s proposed and controversial statutory instrument on copyright – officially, Statutory…Thu Feb 23 2012 - 00:00
Bringing technology to bearAs chief information officer at Cisco, Rebecca Jacoby admits it’s both challenging and a lot of fun staying ahead of the game…Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Missing the point of piracy protestersNET RESULTS: Younger people rightly recognise that changes to copyright legislation could affect their use of the internet in…Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Universities have a lot to learn about start-upsIRISH BUSINESS funding for research and university technology transfer offices (TTOs) fails to give Irish start-up companies …Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
Copyright law should help rather than hinder IrelandNET RESULTS: FOR THREE governments in a row, “short-sighted” and “sneaky” seem to have become the relevant terms in operation…Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
Plans for sweeping changes to EU data-protection lawsSWEEPING CHANGES to the EU’s data-protection legislation will place strict controls on businesses and impose large fines for …Thu Jan 26 2012 - 00:00
Businesses in Ireland caught off guard by 'data explosion'IRELAND AND Russia have scored at the bottom of an independent survey that measures how effectively and efficiently large organisations…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Think before you tweet or risk being a twitNET RESULTS: With your tweets open to all there should be compulsory classes on Twitter etiquette, especially for sporting figures…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
